Teun Jacob

Teunis (Teun) Jacob (Rheden, 11 June 1927 - 12 October 2009) was a Dutch wall painter and sculptor, who lived and worked in Rotterdam since the early 1950s.

[1] Born in Rheden, Jacob studied fine art at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam in the department of drawing and painting.

In a period of over five years, adjacent to a power plant, the artists developed an area into the largest work of art in the Netherlands in those days.

[15] In 1977 Jacob with Dries Wiecherink and Bouke Ylstra were appointed as visual artists at the national Government Buildings Agency under Wim Quist.

[16][20] With Hans Abelman, Lucien den Arend and Lon Pennock he was an active member of the Bond voor Beeldende Kunst Arbeiders BBK A (Association for Visual Arts Workers).